GRE Word List
ENIGMA
something hard to understand or explain
The meaning of the word enigma is something hard to understand or explain.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| motif | a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts) |
| collage | an artistic composition made of various materials (such as paper, cloth, or wood) glued on a surface |
| concession | the act or an instance of conceding (as by granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat) |
| pinnace | a light sailing ship |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| stolid | having or expressing little or no sensibility : unemotional |
| perennial | present at all seasons of the year |
| noose | a loop with a slipknot that binds closer the more it is drawn |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| percussion | the act of percussing: such as |